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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

As I write this post, I am sitting in my living room with only the lights of the Christmas tree. We haven't decorated the tree just yet as we have a new kitten (he's just over 3 mo old) and we're going in stages so that he learns to stay clear of the tree. So far, so good! The soft glow of the white lights is so relaxing. I'm ready to start playing some Mannheim Steamroller!

This week it's starting to turn a bit colder, so I was thinking of warm things. Hot chocolate, chai tea, a roaring fire in the fireplace and my favorite blanket.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

It's hard to believe this is my last blog post, November has gone by so quickly! I've had so much fun creating cards for you and I hope you've enjoyed them too. I'm going to leave you with one last card using the sweet set, Rhubarb's Christmas.

Rhubarb is such a cute little fella! I love the look of him stamped and colored on watercolor paper with stamp pads and an aquapainter, it gives him such texture. Antique linen and vintage photo distress inks were sponged around the edge before matting him on another oval. The Christmas Blessings sentiment from theChristmas Joyclear stamp set was embossed in gold sparkle embossing powder. Some vintage lace and ribbons finish up his look.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Good morning everyone! I hope that all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful and relaxed holidays! I found myself within enough time to really think about everyone for whom I was grateful and I made sure that I called and/or made cards for them.

This card is for a particular friend who has recently gone so far above and beyond for me. Her own cards tend toward vintage collage. I don't have the talent nor the supplies for that style, so I tried to base the card in my own fairly simple style but by adding a text background and some sponging on the edges, I think it takes on a vintage look.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Today we have Makiko Jones in our Customer Spotlight! Makiko runs our Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge for us every week and makes wonderful cards! She is a vital part of Sweet 'n Sassy and we appreciate her so much. I thought it would be fun to spotlight her so that those of you who don't frequent the Digi Challenge would see some of her cards and maybe stop by her blog!

We love to see the things you make and to spotlight our customers. If you have cards or projects you've made, we hope you'll upload them to SCS, the SNS Connection, or play along in one of our challenges!

First I stamped and colored my image with Copic Markers, then cut it out. Next I die-cut a scallop circle out of Window Sheet. I put a very thin strip of dimensional tape around the colored panel, put some Micro Beads inside, and attached the clear scallop circle on top. Then I stamped another image, colored the circle strip, and cut it out. Attached that to the clear circle, and also covered up the dimensional tape that was showing through the clear sheet.

The background was embossed with Snowflakes embossing folder. To dress up my card, I used a doily, rhinestones, and Baker's Twine. The greeting was stamped on a ticket die-cut and stapled onto the card.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

This week's CAS challenge over on Splitcoaststampers is to make a card with a winter/holiday theme. Easy peasy for me, because I am currently in love with this gorgeous Snowflake Flourish set. I kept my card super simple, and added the sentiment on a quick little banner I made. I spritzed the left side with some water and rolled the edge around my paper piercer. Spritzing it with water helps it roll smoothly. I fussy cut a few snowflakes to pop up on foam tape as well.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Greetings everyone and welcome to the Thanksgiving Eve (well it's almost eve) post! Hope everyone is ready and excited about tomorrow's Thanksgiving festivities! We're looking forward to spending the day with a few couples from church. It's been a tradition for the past 10 years or so and we always have a wonderful day!

As for today's card, I couldn't help but share a card made with one of the newest releases, Snowflake Flourish. Let's see, I love snowflakes and swirls and this set combines those two ideas into one image...swoon...I'm in love! The large snowflake swirl image was used on the white paper banner, which also has a hint of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on the edges. I also stamped a few of the single snowflake images in a darker blue (Chipped Shappire), cut them out, and popped them up with foam tape. I love this large sentiment and decided to add a whole lotta rhinestones around the edge of the circle to add that extra bling. The designer paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle and has become one of my favorite winter lines.

I hope you enjoyed today's card and I'm wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Wow! Thanksgiving is only 2 days away, are you thawing your turkey yet? Maybe you're already decorating for Christmas! Traditionally we decorate the Saturday after Thanksgiving and then attend the Holiday Stroll our town hosts in the evening. The polar bear from Cozy Friends has decided to decorate a little early this year!

Doesn't he look so cute and festive with that wreath around him? First I embossed the polar bear in white on crumb cake and colored him with prismacolor pencils. I used a black marker to emphasize some of his facial features, added glitter to his fur and cut him out. The wreath is snipped from a piece of dp from the Recollections Naughty or Nice stack. I cut a slot in the bottom and inserted Mr. Bear. Here's a close up...

I added some red gems, a red bow and jingle bells attached with twine to decorate his wreath. The main panel is from the My Mind's Eye Countdown to Christmas pad.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Hello, it's Bridget here today with a very quick and simple sponging and silhouette card for you - I love the look of a black silhouette against a bright splash of color. And in the middle of making Christmas cards, I had the urge to make something fresh and flowery!

I sponged the card base using SU's Certainly Celery and Old Olive, then used a Fiskar's punch to round the corners. Sweet and Sassy Stamps Wildflowers set works wonderfully to stamp multiple times at different heights across the bottom of a card, whatever the width. The sentiments are beautiful and I like to use them for thank you cards especially - I added a small row of black pearls as an accent.

The gems in the flower centers are colored with Copic Y95 to match the green. To finish I added some black and white gingham ribbon to pick up on the black of the silhouette.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

A Happy Sunday Morning to you! This is our Customer Spotlight Sunday and I have another sweet Customer to share with you today. Our cards today are made by Donna Hanley

I chose more than one of her cards to share because she has so many cute ones. Donna loves Rhubarb so I had to share one of her Rhubarb cards. The card above is one of our newest images, Cupid Rhubarb. She's colored him so perfectly!

What I love about this Cocoa card is the non traditional Christmas colors and how cute it looks! For this card she used our Cocoa's Christmas Tree digi but it also comes in stamp form too.

Donna is an active member on our Sweet 'n Sassy Connection. We enjoy getting to know the ladies that share their cards and play along with our challenges there. Thank you Donna for all the wonderful cards you make!

We appreciate each of you that share your cards and projects onSCS and our SNS Connection!

Friday, November 18, 2011

When I realized Thanksgiving is less than a week away, I knew what I wanted to do for my SNSS Blog post! Every year my DH and I get invited to Thanksgiving dinner, and every year I make a table favor for everyone, so it was time for me to come up with this year's idea! Korin had just added a new "Save the Turkeys" digi to the SNSS Store that would be just perfect. I started playing around with the Spellbinders Label 10 die because the ends reminded me of turkey feathers...okay...maybe that's a stretch, but bear with me! This is what I came up with...AND...6 Hershey Nuggets or little cello bags of mixed nuts fit perfectly in this little favor box!

Here's how to make this cute little turkey box!

Step 1: Die cut the largest Label 10 die from card stock. Now would be a good time to add texture if you want. Center the die between the left end and the 6" mark on a Scor-Pal and score at 2 and 4 inches. (Or use whatever scoring tool you have.) Then turn the die vertically and score at the ends of the scallops on each side. Cut the tabs up to the score line as shown.

Step 2: Apply adhesive to the tabs on the right side of the die cut.

Step 3: Fold on all the score lines. Tuck the tabs in and adhere. At this point you can decorate your box...or...make a liner.

Step 4: Cut a complimentary piece of card stock 4 1/2" X 4 1/2". Score at 1 1/4" on all four sides. Cut corner tabs to score line and add adhesive to the tabs on the right side of the box.

Step 5: This is what you end up with. This liner will tuck perfectly into the little die cut box. I added some adhesive to the bottom to hold it in place.

Step 6: I decorated my box by cutting a piece of DP with the next size smaller die and wrapped it around the box. The great thing about digi images is that I was able to size the turkey to fit the box perfectly! The "Save the Turkey" image was colored with copic markers, cut out, and popped up on the front of the box. A 6" piece of ribbon was adhered to the sides of the box and buttons were added for decoration.

And there you have it! Be sure to check out all the other new digs and wonderful stamp sets at SNSS! For this week, every $25 gift certificate you buy, you get a $5 gift certificate for yourself! Thanks for stopping by! I'm off to make several more of these turkey favors...Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

This adorable snowmanwas released earlier this month and I promptly coloured him using my copic markers! He can be paired with a cute poem titled Snowman Soup. If you look closely, you will see that I only used the first verse of this poem. There's a story behind the why but it's not very creative so I will spare you all the details.

I pulled out my Basic Grey paper pad to complete the card. I love the Kraft cardstock for a nostaligic Holiday feel. I layered my dp and ran it through my poinsettia embossing folder to give it some texture. Snowman is die cut with spellbinders and used grosgrain ribbon to tie it all together.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

I have pretty limited craft budget so I really enjoy getting the most out of my supplies and using them in new ways. For the card I am sharing with you today, I used an all occasion everyday stamp set to create a Christmas card. I was inspired by a Christmas ad that I recently saw and that is where the idea for my card came from.

I stamped several different images from the Seeing Spots set in both red and gold inks to make a square. I then matted it and used some organdy ribbon to make it look like a present. The card was further embellished with gold stickles and gold pearls in the corners. I "framed" the sentiment by placing it between 2 score lines. I was fairly happy with how this card came out and I am planning on making more in some different color combos.

Tis the season for holiday shopping! This week's birthday special at Sweet N Sassy stamps is Buy a $25 gift certificate and get a $5 gift certificate for yourself. Now that is my kinda shopping- one for you and one for me too so everyone is happy lol.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

For today's card I colored the plane from Little Boy Toys with markers, highlighting with a white gel pen. The clean lines make these images a breeze to cut out and pop up. I hand cut the cloud, banner and rolling hills and sponged them all with pool party ink. The fun dotted papers come from the 6x6 Quite Contrary Jack and Jill pad by My Mind's Eye. A bit of Caribbean Baker's Twine and button add the final touch.

Monday, November 14, 2011

This is my first post as part of the Sweet 'n Sassy design team and I am thrilled to be here!

I tend toward a very clean and simple style. I usually have a layer or two, I like ribbon and bows, and I do like coloring (Rhubarb and Cocoa are particular favorites) - but overall I keep things simple. My sample cards today are particularly simple because I had some wonderful new Sweet 'n Sassy stamps that are unique and stylish enough to stand on their own.

I wanted to use the Thinking of You stamp set that is free in November with a $50 purchase. It is a set of eight "Thinking of Yous" - each with a unique font and style.

For my first card, I used the Season of Change stamp and die set. These leaves have such an interesting pattern, I knew they could stand alone on a clean and simple, one-layer card. As an experiment, I used one die to cut a window and a different die and stamp on top.

Both stamps are rock and rolled in a darker color. Then the top leaf has some Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles which gives shine and sparkle but in a very subtle way.

My second card is a totally different look although even simpler than the first card. The butterfly is from Polka Dot Silhouettes - I love his shape and knew that he would be unique enough to highlight the sweet and stylish lines of the sentiment.

I hope I have given you some new ideas for your stamps or perhaps some additions to your Sweet 'n Sassy wishlist!!

Here are directions to help you make the snow-globe shape. Start out with die-cutting a circle out of acetate/window sheet. I used my largest, 3-3/4" Spellbinder Circle die for that.

Next trace the circle on a folded 11-1/2" x 4-1/4" card stock, and drew in the rest of the globe:

Cut the snow-globe out (make sure you don't cut apart front and back panel). Next cut front panel as indicated:

Trace bottom piece onto a dry embossed red card stock, which is going to be the front-bottom panel of the globe. You will end up with the following pieces:

When assembling card, first adhere window sheet to top (you might have to trim a small piece off the top of acetate circle so it fits properly), then just sandwich bottom part between the 2 front panel pieces. Decorate as desired.

I used Maraschino Baker's Twine, Black Lace, Silver Rhinestones, a Gold Bell, and some punched leaves on my card. The image was colored with Copic Markers. I also added some Stickles as snow.

The original greeting is 2 lines, but I inked the words up individually and stamped them on one line.

Hope I inspired you to make a snow-globe card of your own. The sweet images from Freezin' Season stamp set are just perfect for that.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Hi everyone, it's Taylor here today! I'm sharing a simple card I made recently that is super easy to make in large batches(perfect for holiday card making!). Last week's CAS Challenge over on Splitcoaststampers was a color combo - ivory, chocolate, and red. I think this is such a delicious combo! I made my card on a day when much of the country was getting snow (not us, even thought I wanted it - we got cold temperatures and rain, which I also happen to love). To console myself about our lack of snow, I inked up one of my current favorite sets from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, Snowflake Silhouettes.

I stamped my snowflakes randomly on a cream panel, and then cut it into three sections. The ones on the left and right are 1 1/4" wide, and the one in the middle is 1 1/2" wide. I stamped a sentiment and popped it up on dimensionals, and added three small stickers on the right side of the card to balance it out.

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